• iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Makes me wonder where all that money is going? I mean they must be making billions in those funding cuts. Are they all gonna funnel that money into Russia and tech oligarch’s pockets?

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      They want to create an oligarchy in the US.

      Privatise everything and give them to their billionaire buddies to run.

      Imagine the money you can make by selling weather data, gathered by government sensors. Or a private VA organisation with an exclusive contract with the government.

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        12 hours ago

        Selling to who?

        If the masses are penniless serfs, who is going to buy the services provided? One of the other 8 billionaires who own the country?

        They really haven’t considered the longer term here. Ultimately, they’ll be kings of a worthless backward shitheap, despised and shunned by the international community, their best and most promising exfiltrated to the rest of the world then fenced off to rot into obscurity.

        Like North Korea, more or less.

        • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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          10 hours ago

          That is exactly what they want. They want us to literally live like dark age serfs while they live in opulent and highly technologically advanced palaces that cater to them.

          They don’t just want everything. They want everyone else to have NOTHING. A billionaire in a chauffered Bently that costs 500,000 dollars definitely looks down on people driving Honda Civics that cost 20,000. But imagine if they were in that Bently and the people around them had no cars, and even a bicycle is a luxury, and whatever public transport that is available is prone to breakdown. Their ability to look down upon the serfs is much greater, which is what they want.

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            7 hours ago

            The issue is that technology advances with the whole, the internet/smartphones/gaming etc. All benefit from large populations being able to buy/engage with them.

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              6 hours ago

              They don’t care. At all. They would hoard it all for themselves and use as many common people as medical guinea pigs for medical experiments to prolong their own wretched existence, too. Imagine the average ‘elite’ living 20 or 30 years longer than the ‘common’ person. They would see more superior and like gods even though they fully well know it is entirely them killing their underlings.

              Trump effectively orchestrated the fucked up response to the pandemic that resulted in 500,000 deaths. They knew that far more minorities would be harmed than whites. If you think they also ultimately care about their white underlings you are wrong.

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                5 hours ago

                The point was, that isn’t possible. If everyone is too poor to consume, their system stops, and they aren’t rich anymore.

                Long term, the snake is eating it’s own tail. What happens when it gets to it’s own head? It chokes to death (and scavengers pick over the corpse).

                Either they’re too stupid to know what happens at the end, or they’re stupid enough to think they can jump off the ride with the loot before it crashes.

                In neither scenario would I want to be living that close to the coming chaos.

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                  5 hours ago

                  Either they’re too stupid to know what happens at the end, or they’re stupid enough to think they can jump off the ride with the loot before it crashes.

                  Both. The answer is both. They really think they can survive environmental collapses. They would more than the average person… but not for very long.

                  • Fluke@lemm.ee
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                    3 hours ago

                    About as long as is possible with the doors welded shut from outside, I guess.

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        Brain drain also shifts the country rightward. Worked well for Fidesz, will work well for the Republicans.

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        13 hours ago

        The US is an oligarchy already. It has been since at least the late 70s. It is just that now the system is falling apart.

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      14 hours ago

      Not to Russia probably, not directly at least. Just to oligarchs. But not just tech oligarchs, oil barons will obviously take their share, no oligarchs will be left hanging

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      11 hours ago

      Makes me wonder where all that money is going?

      Scroll down to spending categories. Most money is spent on things like social security, medicare, veteran care, unemployment insurance, and health. Defense is 13% (and absolutely needs to be audited ASAP). Interest payments on debt is now 13% and growing fast. This is why it’s important to at least reduce the deficit as fast as possible. Imagine how much good the government could do with another $400B each year without those interest payments. (well, maybe not this government, but the next one).

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        6 hours ago

        Since this shows spending since 2024 oct it would mostly relate to spending in the government before actually wouldn’t it? I am more interested in what they are going to do with all the influx of money that will come from all the funding cuts that have happened in the last month or so.